Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (10 x 13½"). Trimmed just within plate. Very slight damage in centre.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 40502] £220.00
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Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, stained.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 56613] £180.00
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[Peace of Amiens] Old Times Returned.
W. f. [George Moutard Woodward.]
Pub.d May 18 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, title slightly cropped.
An obese John Bull eats at a laden table; The waiter says ''Pudding did you say Sir?''; Bull retorts angrily ''Yes you Scoundrel Pudding_ do you mean to stave a Man in a Christian Country _ at Peace with all the World!''. The Treaty of Amiens was signed on 25th March 1802, resulting in a pause in the war with Revolutionary France until 18th May 1803.
[Ref: 63119] £240.00
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[Set of eight scenes] The Baliff's Hunt. Going Out in the Morning. [&] Plate 2. In Full Scent. [&] Plate 3. Breaking Cover. [&] Plate 4. The Pursuit. [&] Plate 5. At Fault. [&] Plate 6. The Second Escape. [&] Plate 7. Double and Squat. [&] Plate 8. The Seizure.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight coloured etchings. Each sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper in a strip, concertinaed into a leather pouch with facsimile of Rowlandson's signature.
A work of bailiffs chasing a debtor through the streets satirised as a fox hunt.
[Ref: 60674] £700.00
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Whims of the Moment or the Bedford Level!!
Woodward del. [Etched by Isaac Cruikshank]
[London Pub No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening]
Coloured etching, E & P watermark. Sheet 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line at top.
Two panels: on the left a well-dressed man staggers back in horror as he regards his queue of hair which has been roughly cropped from the back of the neck; on the right a farmer smiles as he shows off his neck, shaved at the back of his head. Francis Russell (1765-1802), 5th Duke of Bedford, protested against the imposition of a tax on hair powder in 1795 by cutting his hair short, a style that became known as the 'Bedford Level', after the area of the Fens reclaimed by his family. BM Satires 8763.
[Ref: 54563] £140.00
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Business and Pleasure.
Woodward del. Rowlandson scul.
London Published by Thomas Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured etching. 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill' watermark. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") large margins.
A cobbler and his neighbour chat: their idea of pleasure is to go to see five men being hung. BM Satire 11133B.
[Ref: 50796] £320.00
[Title Page] The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror. By G.M. Woodward. Esq.r. Author of Eccentric Excursions. Vol. I.
Woodward Del.t Cruickshanks Sculp.t.
Published by Thomas Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with large margins left & right. Thread margins top and bottom. Nicks to bottom margin. Paper toned and surface dirt in margins.
The title is written on a traditional curtain that is symmetrically placed throughout the design, with a John Bull-style smiling mask in the centre. The design features an ugly and aged man and woman sitting and smiling, holding a print that appears to be a mirror reflection of their heads and shoulders. Caricature heads are shown densely clustered together, as though they are in a theatre gallery, while the curtain descends on either side of the central mask. Liliputian figures are below. BM Satires 10889.
[Ref: 61920] £360.00
[The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature Magazine.] Ladies and Gentlemen, having compleated the final volume of the Caricature Magazine, I am desired in the name of the Proprietors, Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large _ long, and small headed Bretheren to return to you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced...
Woodward Inv.t and Delin; [etched by Charles Williams.]
London, Published 1st Sept.r 1807, by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins on 2 sides. Trimmed into plate at bottom, small tear entering plate but not image at top,
A group of 'Lilliputians' stand on a stage surrounded by a curtain festooned with satire prints. BM Satires 10916, with extensive description of the prints illustrated.
[Ref: 58268] £380.00
Caricature Magazine by G.M. Woodward, Esq.r. Vol. 4. Ever Changing. Ever Now. Vive la Magatelle.
Woodward del. Rowlandson fc.
London Published by T. Tegg III Cheapside 1809.
Etching with wonderful hand-colour. Sheet: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''). Small bottom margin. Some surface dirt. Creased and damaged.
A frontispiece showing two figures seated on either side of the image reading through earlier volumes of Woodward's Caricature Magazine. Above the figure on the left hangs a painting of a masquerade while on the other side hangs and painting of a country dance.
[Ref: 62640] £160.00
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[Title Page] Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, By Thomas Rowlandson, Esq.r Vol. II.
[After Woodward]
Published by T. Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1807]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 250 x 405mm (10 x 15¾"). On paper watermarked '1816', with large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate at top & bottom. Some staining.
The title is engraved across the centre of the page. Comic Mirror' is inscribed on a half-length figure of a jester wearing a fool's cap, strung from two ribbon festoons that are centred by a bow. A ribbon loop with the words "To hold as t'were the Mirror up to Nature" is engraved beneath it. Shakespeare. Half-length figures scrutinising bound numbers (or volumes) of the Magazine are supported by one festoon with the inscription 'Country Observations on the Caricature Magazine'. A attractive woman approaches John and says, "Come on, let me look, don't keep it all to yourself." "Don't be in a hurry well these things be the drollest things ever sent into our Country," and "There is one exactly like our Exciseman," are said by two oafish men while holding an open book. As he looks through a volume, a third man remarks, "I wonder how they think of all these things." The second festoon, "Town Observations on the Caricature Magazine," features two men and two ladies (three-quarter length), who appear unattractive but rather stylish, as they enthusiastically examine the bound images. They respond with: "It is certainly very amuseing" ; "Pray Sir have they commenced the second Volume" ; "Just got the first number Ma'am from Mr Teggs." Two processions surround the sides and lower portion of the motif. 'Whimsical Characters climbing to the Temple of Fame' are located on the left. Back view of men and women ascending, perspective regressing to a circular temple where Fame sounds his horn. A chubby parson, a flirtatious military officer with a large cocked hat, and a plump 'cit' walking hand in hand with a slender woman are the people in the foreground. They see a Highlander walking ahead of them. "A Grotesque Deputation from the Temple of Momus-returning thanks for past favors and soliciting future patronage" is the text on the left. These are Lilliputian figures, with large grotesque heads of men and women, all smiling, descending from a temple that straddles Momus."The Genius of Caricature opening the Second Volume" is positioned between the two processions and forms a tail-piece. Perhaps a fantastic representation of Tegg, the man has a large smile on his face, faun's ears, and butterfly wings. He is sprawled on the ground with an open volume in his hands, which is "Caricature Magazine Vol 2d." He has "Caricature Magazine, Vol. 1" resting on his elbow. Next to him are documents with the following inscriptions: 'Bulls,' 'Anecdotes,' 'Jests,' 'Puns,' 'Bon Mot[s]', and distinct prints. BM Satires 10917.
[Ref: 61921] £360.00
[An agreeable character in a post-chaise] Plate 36. Page 99.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster row Nov.r 1796.
Coloured etching, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides except top. Faint mount burn.
Design within a circle: A stout, half-length figure turned to the right, his drink-flushed face blotched with carbuncles. He sports a round hat with upcurved sides, a fashionable cravat, and an enormous high-collared, double-breasted waistcoat. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'. BM Satires 8963.
[Ref: 67721] £70.00
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An Easy Reply. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl. 6.
G M Woodward delt. [Williams]
Pub,d Jan,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Tears and creasing. Trimmed nearly to image.
A dishevelled young man is restrained by two companions as he invokes Hamlet when addressing a burly watchman. One of a set of six satires. BM Satires 10329.
[Ref: 50718] £140.00
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A Sudden Thought. Specimens of Dramatic Phrenzy. Pl. 2.
G M Woodward delt. [Williams]
Pub.d Janr,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching, watermark Russell & Co 179?. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"). Tears and creasing.
A young man, fashionably dressed, postures as if terror-struck before two astonished waiters, invoking Macbeth. One of a set of six satires. BM Satires 10325
[Ref: 50719] £160.00
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An Easy Reply. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl. 6.
G M Woodward delt.
Pub,d Jan,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Losses at corners.
A dishevelled young man is restrained by two companions as he invokes Hamlet when addressing a burly watchman. One of a set of six satires. BM Satires 10329.
[Ref: 54276] £320.00
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[Profile of an Elderly Lady] Plate 32. Page 86.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row. Nov.r 5, 1796.
Coloured etching, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Small printer’s crease on right just going into image. And printers crease bottom right.
Design within a circle: a gaunt, hook-nosed woman, maybe a witch, shown three-quarter length in profile to the right, extending her right hand while pointing with her left. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
[Ref: 67720] £90.00
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[Elements of Bacchus] Drops of Comfort and Draughts of Delight.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, old ink mss. on bottle.
A country woman makes a toast as she fills her wine glass from a bottle. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62153] £260.00
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[Elements of Bacchus] The Constitution _ Gentlemen.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A rotund man seated in an armchair raises a glass of wine to make a toast. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62156] £260.00
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[Elements of Bacchus] To the Memory of our Departed Friends.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A seated man in wig and breeches, holding cane and glass of wine, making a toast. Described in the text as 'Doctor Bolus', he has been identified as a 'Doctor Butler'. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62155] £260.00
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[Elements of Bacchus] May the Eye of Science pierce through the mists of Obscurity.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man stands before a table, making a toast, glass of wine in his hand. The text (not present here) describes him as an amateur astronomer. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62152] £260.00
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[Elements of Bacchus] All true Hearts and Sound Bottoms.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining.
A man makes a naval toast with a glass of wine. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62154] £260.00
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Acute Pain. No. 10. The curious observer of the Passion, has only to get a careless Servant to pour some hot water on his foor, in a case of the Gout, & he will soon know the nature of Acute Pain.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub: 21 Jan. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Acute Pain is portrayed by a man who suffers with gout crying out because his servant has poured tea on his foot. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'. BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46596] £160.00
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Joy with Tranquility. No. 8. This passion is represented by a Philosophical Brewer, who having gained a considerable Prize in the Lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of Fortune.
Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21 Jan: 1800. at R. Ackermann's Respository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. A brewer, having won five thousand pounds in the lottery receives his prize with composure. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'. BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46595] £150.00
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A Plan for General Reform. Respectfully submitted to the attention of Members of Parliament _ During the Summer Recess_
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[London Pubd. ****] 1829 by Tho.s Tegg No 111. Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Eight caricatures of figures expressing their view on reform. Grego II pg.45. Not in BM.
[Ref: 51704] £230.00
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The Effect of Imagination. A Gown metamorphosd into a Ghost!! Plate 60. Page 137.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks s.
London Pubd by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row Feb: 11, 1797.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, a few small stains at bottom.
A yokel with a lantern mistakes a gown hanging up to dry for a ghost. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'. BM Satires 9124. See also [Ref: 63411]
[Ref: 63411] £90.00
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An Olio of Good Breeding: With Sketches Illustrative of the Modern Graces.
By G.M. Woodward, Author of Eccentric Excursions, &c. [Etched by Rowlandson].
London Publish'd May 27, 1801, at R. Ackermann's 101 Strand.
7 etchings with wonderful hand colour. 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6), with large margins. Frontispiece and Plate 7 on paper watermarked '1799'. Tear in Frontispiece going into image. Incomplete; missing plates 2, 3 & 4.
7 out of 10 plus titlepage and frontis (9 pages) from the second edition of 'An Olio of Good Breeding' published by Ackermann. Satire on etiquette. Plates with titles include 'The Graces! The Graces! The Graces!!' and 'Horror Personified.' The first edition was published in 1797 by Woodward, in Berners Street.
[Ref: 60536] £990.00
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Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls.
Woodward del. Etched by Rowlanson.
Pub.d July 20th 1799 at Ackermans Gallery N.101 Strand.
Coloured etching. Sheet 340 x 445mm (13¼ x 17½"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, to printed border at top, crease. Unexamined out of frame.
Three rows containing nine satirical scenes, with five 'Lilliputians', including a game of cricket. From a series of at least 21 'Groteque Borders for...', with variations of rooms, halls & screens. As the sheets were often trimmed and pasted as borders surviving examples are rare. From the collection of the Marylebone Cricket Club. This sheet not in BM Satires, but see 9690 for a sheet published in 1800.
[Ref: 67047] £650.00
The Effect of Imagination. The end of a Barn Transformed into a Hobgoblin. Plate 59. Page 137.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp
London Pubd by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row Feb: 11, 1797.
Coloured etching, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, faint mount burn.
A yokel with a lantern experiences pareidolia; as the barn forms a face in the darkness. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'. BM Satires 9123. See also [Ref: 63411].
[Ref: 67716] £70.00
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[Homer Travestie.] A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition Improved.
[by Thomas Bridges, plates after George Moutard Woodward.]
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797.
8vo (215 x 140mm, 8½ x 5½"), half calf with contemporary marbled boards; vol 1: pp. (vi)+360; Vol 2: pp. 432; complete with two engr. titles, 24 engraved plates. Spines rebacked, inner hinges taped; spotting throughout. Bookplates of E.F. Bolton on front paste-downs.
The fourth edition of a work written by Thomas Bridges under the pseudonym 'Caustic Barebones', first published 1762. This edition was the first with plates after Woodward, which are said to have been engraved by Francis Grose. Lowndes, The Bibliographers Manual of English Literature, volume II, p. 1101: ''Best edition, with humorous plates. A work full of humour... which often transgresses the bounds of decency''.
[Ref: 60711] £490.00
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[24 illustrated plates from 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation']
[after George Moutard Woodward.]
[Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, 1797.]
Etchings, each platemark approx 180 x 115, bound together. Foxing to some plates.
Plates etched by an unidentified printmaker after Woodward's satires for Thomas Bridges' 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation' in its 1797 edition. Bridges (b.1710?, d. in or after 1775) was a playwright and novelist from Hull, who first published his Homer parodies in 1762 under the pseudonym Caustic Barebones. He also wrote 'The Battle of the Genii' (1765), parodying passages from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
[Ref: 25582] £480.00
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[Jolting Preventatives.]
Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp.
London Published by Allen & Co, 15 Paternoster Row, March 4, 1797.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Trimmed, losing title at top.
Four scenes of the inside of a coach, each with two people and their different ways of holding onto the safety straps, expressing from attraction to distain. A pair to 'Symptoms of Jolting'. BM Satires 9134.
[Ref: 60579] £260.00
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Justice. [Country Characters No 2.]
[Woodward Delin. Etch'd by Rowlandson.]
[Pu]bd Aug 30 1799 by R. Ackermann N 101 Stra[nd.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed to image and around title, losing inscriptions and sub-title.
A country bumpkin before a magistrate, misunderstanding the clerk.
[Ref: 51264] £160.00
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A Sudden Emotion. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl.5.
G.M. Woodward del.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Hand coloured etching. On watermarked paper, 'Russell & Co.' Sheet size: 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Large margins left & right, cut to platemark top & bottom. Ink stain in upper right. Small tears in top edge of sheet. Pin holes in left margin where bound.
The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man, pen in hand, addressing an elderly man who looks at him in dismay. To the right, a maid holds a pail of water, prepared to throw its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from behind. On the wall is a large calendar inscribed, 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Plate five from the series, 'Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy'.
[Ref: 38763] £220.00
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A Lilliputian Auction.
Woodward del. Cruikshank st.
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London [c.1804].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 25 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Satire on ignorant collectors. In an auction, two pictures are on display, a landscape ('Lot 32 a Beutifull Claude in the highest preservation') and a portrait, which the auctioneer is opening the bidding for ('Lot 20- Cleopatra an undoubted Corregio'). A prospective buyer examines the latter through a looking glass while his advisor assures him of its authenticity ('I saw it myself in Egypt'). On the far left a man pays a deposit for the chinese figure he holds under his arm, while a bespactacled man in the centre reads a sales catalogue offering a piece of Noah's Ark, Alexander the Great's knee buckle, and Julius Caesar's wig. Not in BM Satires, but BM 1990,1109.28.
[Ref: 68223] £360.00
A Long Headed Election.
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg in Cheapside [n.d., c.1806.]
Fine coloured etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with wide margins Top margin with loss.
A crowd of 'Long Heads' listening to politicians on the hustings. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep. BM Satire 10610.
[Ref: 52697] £260.00
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A Long Headed Election. 108
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg in Cheapside [n.d., c.1806.]
Fine hand coloured etching. Plate 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼") Trimmed to plate in part at top. Small margins. Slight crease lower right.
A crowd of 'Long Heads' listening to politicians on the hustings. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep. BM Satire 10610.
[Ref: 61899] £360.00
Long Heads upon Change, or the return of L.d Lauderdale.
Woodward del. Cruikshank s.t.
Published by T. Tegg Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1806.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
A comic scene showing men with very large heads buying, selling and discussing stock in the courtyard of the Royal Exchange. The scene comments on Lord Lauderdale's fruitless peace negotiations with France. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep. BM Satire 10604.
[Ref: 46624] £260.00
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Setting out for Margate.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
London Aug.st 29 1809. Pub.d by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), large margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame. 'Price One Shilling' erased.
A 'Cit' in old-fashioned dress complains to his fat wife about all the food he is carrying (including the two geese whose heads protrude from his pockets. Their servant announces their boat is ready. BM Satires 11968, with date partially erased, their guess 1812. See reference 61906 for unframed one with different colouring.
[Ref: 58385] £260.00
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Miseries of Human Life. 287. "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrates on the subject."
Woodward del. Cruikshanks fc.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins. Some staining in margins and tears to margins.
A man struggles with a stubborn horse who wants to cool off in some water. Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61914] £220.00
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Miseries of Human Life. 287. "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrates on the subject."
Woodward del. Cruikshanks fc.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 245 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). On paper watermarked '1817.' Trimmed to plate on top. Stained.
A man struggles with a stubborn horse who wants to cool off in some water. Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 61913] £220.00
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Miseries of Human Life. 301. "As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on Market day finding yourself obliged though your dancing days have been long over, to lead outsides, cross over, foot it, and a variety of other steps and figures;_ with mad bulls for your partners."
Woodward del.
[n.d. c.1810]
Hand-coloured etching, plate 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Stained and paper toned.
A man dances away from charging bulls at Smithfield market, losing his hat and his wig in the process.
[Ref: 61911] £180.00
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Miseries of Human Life. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. 240 x 345mm. (9½ x 13½"). Faint watermark.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud. Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 52804] £280.00
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Miseries of Human Life. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 355mm. (9¾ x 14"). Tear repaired with tape on lower title. Trimmed to plate on bottom edge.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud. Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 61857] £260.00
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Miseries of Human Life. 264. "Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance whom you suddenly meet, and to whom you liberally impact a share of the jet d'eau".
Woodward del. Cruikshanks del.
London. Pub. by T.Tegg Feb...[n.d. c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etching, 250 x 355mm. (9¾ x 14"). Tear at bottom left.
In greeting a young lady, a beau accidently bespatters her with mud. Not in BM Satires. Krumbhaar: 742. Cohn.
[Ref: 66835] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
A Monkish Vision.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks s.p.
[London Published by Allen & C° Paternoster Row March 25 1797.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A fat monk, his face disfigured with drink, sleeps in an armchair, dreaming of pretty women bringing him wine, meat and grapes. BM Satires 9148.
[Ref: 54562] £95.00
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John Bull and Bonaparte!! To the Tune of the Blue Bell of Scotland. When and O when does this little Boney come? / Perhaps he'll come in August! - perhaps he'll stay at home; / But it's O in my heart, how I'll hide him should he come...
Woodward del. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
[n.d., c.1803.]
Broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Foxing.
John Bull, a fat citizen in old-fashioned dress, facing down Napoleon Bonaparte, wearing an outsize bicorn and carrying a huge sabre, across the Channel. Britain ended the Peace of Amiens when it declared war on France in May 1803. BM Satires 10064.
[Ref: 54575] £290.00
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The Mothers Hope.
Woodward Del Rowlandson scul
by Tho.s Tegg N111 Cheapside [1808]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Creased; trimmed to plate; surface dirt.
A nursemaid or mother in pink looks on as a boy (dressed as a girl) protests 'I don't like dolls! I don't like Canary Birds I hate Battledore and Shuttlecock, I like Drums and Trumpets. I wont go to school- I will stay at home- I will have my own way in everything!!' An elderly woman in spectacles approves: 'Bless the Baby- what an aspiring spirit- if he goes on in this way he will be a second Buonaparte!!' BM Satires 11137.
[Ref: 50788] £140.00
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Odd Fellows from Downing Street complaining to John Bull. 168
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''), with wide margins. Cut to platemark at bottom.
A scene in Westminster in which John Bull addresses a group of men. A satire on the prevailing theme that there was little to choose between the 'Ins' and the 'Outs', both parties when in office being plunderers of the public. BM Satire 10988.
[Ref: 50809] £260.00
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Odd Fellows from Downing Street complaining to John Bull. 168.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Time stained.
A satirical scene in Birdcage Walk, Westminster, with John Bull in conversation with a group of men. 'Oddfellows' were members of a society established to join 'ordinary' people together to improve their situation. This satire suggests they had little to choose between the 'Ins' and the 'Outs', parties that were plunderers of the public when in office. BM Satire 10988.
[Ref: 58484] £240.00
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View at the Old Hats. Plate 6. Page 19.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d Aug 13, 1796 by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row.
Coloured etching, 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Design in an oval. Outside an inn, only the corner of its ground and first floor visible at right, two postilions lounge against a sign-post showing just the edge of the ‘Old Hats’ sign. The fat landlord brings a bowl of punch to two young cits in riding-dress. Nearby, two men smoke and drink at a table while other customers stand about. In the background wait a coach and a post-chaise. It was a half-way house on the road to Acton. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'. BM Satires 8935.
[Ref: 67718] £70.00
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The Old Woman's Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet.
Woodward Delin. Rowlandson sc.
London Published by Thomas Tegg No.111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''), with wide margins. Bit messy in margins.
A scene in a schoolroom, an angry woman stands before a schoolmaster to complain that the group of schoolboys have been shouting things like 'beat her' as she walks along the road. One of the boys claims that they are not shouting at the woman but practising their Greek alphabet and shouting 'Beta'. BM Satire 11460.
[Ref: 50790] £260.00
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